Please tell us about your experiences of using or developing ‘Slow’ approaches to teaching and learning. How have you managed to create time for really absorbed, reflective learning processes, in which the learner is empowered to learn at their own…
Slow Education in the Sunday Times - 7/10/12
Ofsted Prepares to Carpet-Bomb the Schools by Professor Maurice Holt
Carpet-bombing is not, of course, the preferred usage: politicians call it “driving up standards”. But there are surprising similarities between the desire of Air Chief Marshal Harris in 1944 to raze Nazi German cities to the ground, and the desire…
The Great Exam Scam - By Professor Maurice Holt
There is much consternation in the land this summer as secondary-school teachers and students discover that their GCSE exam results are lower than predicted. In English, some ten thousand students have a D grade instead of the C they were…
Today we launch the concept of the Slow School.
By Mike Grenier, Joe Harrison, Professor Maurice Holt, Ian Morris and James Stanforth. Today we are launching the concept of the Slow School. We believe that Western liberal societies need to remind themselves of what education is for; how this…
SLOW SCHOOLS MEAN DEEP LEARNING by Professor Maurice Holt
Despite a huge investment in tests, initiatives, and political aspirations, the English education system fails to inspire confidence. Those of us who advocate slow education believe it is the actual process of schooling that matters - not the invention of…
Blackburn Slow Education Network Event - 8TH JULY
BLACKBURN SLOW EDUCATION RESEARCH NETWORK INVITES YOU TO A CELEBRATION EVENT WEDNESDAY 8TH JULY 2015, 1PM - 5PM (A welcome and introduction to the event will take place at 1.30pm and again at 3.45pm). ST SILAS PRIMARY SCHOOL, ST…